Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware
By Christina Goggi on July 27, 2010 – 11:02 am | 2 Comments

Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware – Christina Goggi
Social networking sites have taken the world by storm and continue to find their way into the workplace. While these sites can work as …

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Win an iPad in our GFI ‘Pangea Supercontinent attempts the Mongol Rally’ Competition
Written by Giselle Borg Olivier on July 21, 2010 – 1:56 pm | 6 Comments

Hot on the heels of our last competition (GFI World Cup Competition) we’re psyched to launch another fantastic competition, this time with an altruistic edge and super easy to participate in and the prize is a wonderful Apple iPad.

Simply fill in this form and guess how long it will take the team to reach Mongolia.

GFI Software are proud to be sponsors of Pangea Supercontinent, a team participating in the exciting Mongol Rally (otherwise known as the Festival of Slow), where people will take on the adventure of a lifetime as they attempt to reach Mongolia in a car that should be headed straight for the scrap heap, leaving from either Spain, UK or Italy. The distance? Oh, approximately 10,000 miles!!

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Internet Monitoring: How, what, why?
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on July 29, 2010 – 2:10 pm | No Comment

Monitoring is a vast subject and it is often difficult to think about everything you can monitor; even worse is deciding what is worth the cost of being monitored and what can safely be ignored.  To top it all off there are so many media that a company can monitor that it’s a huge task to even tackle the subject.

The first medium that likely comes to mind when one thinks of monitoring is the internet. The internet is a like a huge lawless expanse with a direct path to your company. Anyone can launch attacks from it and a successful attack can be as damaging as, if not more than, a physical break-in. So what can one monitor and which of these should in fact be monitored?

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Win an iPad in our GFI ‘Pangea Supercontinent attempts the Mongol Rally’ Competition
Written by Giselle Borg Olivier on July 21, 2010 – 1:56 pm | 6 Comments
Win an iPad in our GFI ‘Pangea Supercontinent attempts the Mongol Rally’ Competition

Hot on the heels of our last competition (GFI World Cup Competition) we’re psyched to launch another fantastic competition, this time with an altruistic edge and super easy to participate in and the prize is …

Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications
Written by Cristian Florian on July 28, 2010 – 1:40 pm | 5 Comments
Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications

Top 15 Most Vulnerable Applications
Which were the most vulnerable applications in the first half of 2010?
Below are the results after processing vulnerability data feeds as of July 7, 2010 from National Vulnerability Database (NVD), which …

Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware
Written by Christina Goggi on July 27, 2010 – 11:02 am | 2 Comments
Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware

Google Advisory: Facebook and Twitter regularly victims of malware – Christina Goggi
Social networking sites have taken the world by storm and continue to find their way into the workplace. While these sites can work as …

GFI LANguard adds new applications to its patch management list
Written by Cristian Florian on July 26, 2010 – 6:30 pm | One Comment
GFI LANguard adds new applications to its patch management list

Apple QuickTime, Adobe Air and Opera Browser among the New Applications That Can Be Patched Using GFI LANguard
GFI LANguard 9.5 was launched at the end of May with a new and very important feature for …

Internet and email use: Know thy policies and what they mean
Written by David Kelleher on July 26, 2010 – 11:34 am | 2 Comments
Internet and email use: Know thy policies and what they mean

An interesting legal case surfaced recently that highlighted the fact that technology alone will not help you prove your case. On the contrary, as the outcome clearly showed, technology is only a tool. How it’s …

Unbelievable Security Stories
Written by Emmanuel Carabott on July 22, 2010 – 1:36 pm | 3 Comments
Unbelievable Security Stories

I was reading a story on Reuters about a security expert who highlighted the point that ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) have certain security flaws that help hackers hit the jackpot. Certainly an intriguing story as …

New remote access and support feature available in GFI MAX RemoteManagement
Written by Giselle Borg Olivier on July 19, 2010 – 2:22 pm | No Comment
New remote access and support feature available in GFI MAX RemoteManagement

Hot news off the press! GFI MAX RemoteManagement now features Take Control for easy, fast, secure remote access and user assistance. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT support companies can now connect easily and securely …

GFI MailSecurity™ 2010: LinkScanner & FIFA World Cup 2010 malware
Written by Andrei Zammit on July 19, 2010 – 12:59 pm | One Comment
GFI MailSecurity™ 2010: LinkScanner & FIFA World Cup 2010 malware

The FIFA World Cup 2010has come and gone; however, spammers and malware writers are still exploiting this global event as happened previously with the Icelandic Volcano eruption.
One particular targeted attack related to the World Cup …

GFI World Cup Competition Winner
Written by Giselle Borg Olivier on July 14, 2010 – 5:01 pm | No Comment
GFI World Cup Competition Winner

The grand prize winner of the GFI World Cup Competition is… ANNE TOZER (United Kingdom). Congratulations Anne, you’ve won yourself an Apple iPad, GFI Software license key, GFI laptop rucksack and GFI T-shirt!
All other winners …

Win an iPad as GFI goes World Cup Crazy!
Written by Giselle Borg Olivier on July 14, 2010 – 12:00 pm | 9 Comments
Win an iPad as GFI goes World Cup Crazy!

The grand prize winner of the GFI World Cup Competition is… ANNE TOZER (United Kingdom). Congratulations Anne, you’ve won yourself an Apple iPad, GFI Software license key, GFI laptop rucksack and GFI T-shirt!
All winners have …